Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose has raised the alarm that Nigeria was drifting towards a state of
anarchy, calling on the international community to intervene and rescue the
country from turning to a war zone, where mass killings is a usual occurrence.
Governor Fayose, who was reacting
to the killing of 18 worshipers and the two priests in Benue State allegedly
by herdsmen, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s withdrawal of $496 million from
the Excess Crude Account (ECA) without approval of the National Assembly and
the controversial arrest of Senator Dino Melaye, were indications that “under
this government of President Buhari, the constitution is on suspension.”
He said, “If half of the level
aggressiveness being shown by the Police on the arrest of Senator Dino Melaye
because of seeming concocted allegations is shown on the killings by herdsmen
across the North Central States and other parts of the country, the rampaging
killer herdsmen that are even killing policemen would have been brought under
control.”
Special Assistant to the governor
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement
issued on Tuesday night that, “it is alarming and curious that Father Joseph
Gor, one of the Catholic Priests that were murdered in Benue State today,
raised the alarm on January 3, 2018, through his Facebook account on the
occupation of Mbalom community by herdsmen. Yet, the priest was killed!”
The governor asked; “Why is the
federal government allowing this seeming ethnic cleansing in Benue and other
middle-belt States, such that President Buhari and the entire members of his
government do not see the wanton killings as anything to be worried about?
“When did Nigeria degenerate to
the level that people can no longer worship peacefully in their churches or go
to their farms? When did Nigeria become a state of anomie where people are
killed even after raising alarm that there was threat to their existence?”
On the illegal withdrawal of $496
million from the Excess Crude Account, Governor Fayose said; “One day, this
federal government will even stop releasing statutory allocations to States and
Local councils. They are behaving as if the constitution of the country is
already suspended and this should worry lovers of democracy in Nigeria. He said
it was alarming that “despite that Local Councils in Ekiti State were in court,
challenging the federal government decision to withdraw $1 billion from the
Excess Crude Account and the Attorney General of the Federation had already
entered appearance in the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1264/17 that came up for
hearing before Justice Binta Nyako on Monday, $496 million was taken from the
Excess Crude Account.”
The governor, who described the
President’s action on the illegal withdrawal from the ECA as an insult on the
National Assembly and the Judiciary, added that; “Only the National Assembly
and the judiciary can save themselves from being turned to a non-existing
institutions as already being done by the President.”
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